Under Gu Lan's arrangement, soon, these civilians each had their duties and were settled.
A military force, aside from archers, infantry, cavalry, and navy, also includes auxiliary soldier camps.
Auxiliary soldiers are mostly civilians recruited into the army, responsible for transporting provisions and baggage, or constructing city defense weaponry, and they do not go to the battlefield to kill the enemy.
Yinzhou originally had nearly ten thousand auxiliary soldiers, but with the battle reaching this critical point, there was no distinction between auxiliary and regular troops; all able auxiliary soldiers were on guard patrol, and city defense weaponry was being rushed day and night.
Now, however, the civilians of Yinzhou voluntarily wished to defend the city.
